M+ is a museum dedicated to collecting, exhibiting, and interpreting visual art, design and architecture, moving images, and Hong Kong visual culture of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District, it is one of the largest museums of modern and contemporary visual culture in the world, with a bold ambition to establish ourselves as one of the world’s leading cultural institutions. M+ is a new kind of museum that reflects our unique time and place, a museum that builds on Hong Kong’s historic balance of the local and the international to define a distinctive and innovative voice for Asia’s twenty-first century.
More to explore
Be sure to visit the breathtaking Hong Kong Palace Museum after M+. Housing an unparalleled collection of hundreds of priceless artifacts from the renowned Palace Museum in Beijing, the Hong Kong Palace Museum provides an immersive cultural experience with innovative exhibitions and multimedia installations that you will want to experience. Purchase your Hong Kong Palace Museum tickets now!
Don’t forget to also visit the Tea House Theatre located in Xiqu Centre to experience a specially curated selection of Cantonese opera performances complemented with fine tea and dim sum
Exhibition details:
Design Ah! Experience the Wonder of Everyday Design
Through hands-on games, participatory installations, and immersive audiovisual environments, visitors are encouraged to look closely, try things out, and learn through play. The exhibition sheds light on how design can improve our lives, influence our behaviours, and foster human connections
Herzog & de Meuron: In Focus (opens on 12 Sep)
This presentation celebrates the museum’s fifth anniversary with a significant donation to the M+ Collections from Herzog & de Meuron (established Switzerland, 1978), the world-renowned architecture firm that designed the museum building
Janet Cardiff: The Forty Part Motet
The Forty Part Motet (A reworking of ‘Spem in Alium’, by Thomas Tallis 1556) (2001) is a deeply moving sound installation by artist Janet Cardiff (Canadian, born 1957). This pioneering work immerses visitors in a performance of ‘Spem in Alium’ (Hope in Any Other), a sixteenth-century sacred motet, or polyphonic choral composition, by composer Thomas Tallis (English, 1505–1585)
Heri Dono: Fermentation of the Mind (closes on 25 Oct)
Heri Dono’s kinetic installation Fermentation of the Mind (1992–1993) resembles a classroom, featuring rows of old wooden desks topped with white fibreglass heads. The work is inspired by Indonesia’s sociopolitical landscape in the early 1990s, particularly the state’s influence on public opinion and independent thought through propaganda
Wael Shawky: I Am Hymns of the New Temples (closes on 25 Oct)
Wael Shawky’s video work I Am Hymns of the New Temples (2023) delves into humanity’s beginnings and the construction of national narratives
Myths and Monsters: The Art of Fantasy (opens on 17 Oct)
Spanning from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries, the exhibition presents fantasy as a potent creative tool for artists to respond to shifting sociopolitical conditions
Dial-A-Poem Hong Kong
Presenting 30 newly recorded poems in Cantonese, English, and Mandarin, this exhibition allows visitors to experience the readings firsthand through interactive telephone sculptures.
‘Making It Matters'
Making It Matters mostly draws upon the diverse works of the M+ Collections. The artists, designers, and architects featured include John Cage, Harold Cohen, Julie & Jesse, John Maeda, Raffaella della Olga, Anna Ridler, Ki Saigon, Fujimori Terunobu, Jay Sae Jung Oh, Stanley Wong, and Võ Trọng Nghĩa Architects. It follows the process of making from concept and research to design and fabrication, as well as the social networks that link each step. By delving into the inspirations, techniques, and impacts behind the selected works, the exhibition helps us understand our own roles in processes of making and their relation to our daily lives.
‘Shanshui: Echoes and Signals’
Works drawn from the M+ Collections that explores the complex connections between landscape and humanity in our post-industrial and increasingly virtual world.
‘M+ Sigg Collection: Inner Worlds ’
The third exhibition of the M+ Sigg Collection builds on the groundbreaking previous editions, ‘M+ Sigg Collection: From Revolution to Globalisation’ (2021–2023) and ‘M+ Sigg Collection: Another Story’ (2023–2025). This new display provides a new and in-depth perspective on the collection and contemporary Chinese art by spotlighting key artists and trends.
‘Things, Spaces, Interactions’
Design and architecture from Asia and beyond
- Access to the Mediatheque, the Grand Stair (except for ticketed events), Basement 1, and the Roof Garden remains free
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